The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-09-02

Tn mlssing boat o. the lost steamer CITY
u Montreal has been picked up, and the
thirteen occupants landed all right
HrxRY 4. IvEs was on the stand In the
reference case before Judge Noah Davis,
q New York, on tho stth. but proved m
uncommunicativs witness.
srArK political conventions were held
on the cath: Iowa Republicans a. pes
Moine<. Maryland Republicans ~ baiti-
more and Pennsylvania Prohibitionists 90
Harrisburg.
DIsrArcnEs from India state that Ayoub
Khan. with his principal followers. has
escaped and il hurrying toward hernt
with all possible speed. The Afghan ON.
cials are endeavoring 20 overtake and
capture him, but with small chance o. sue
cess.
EMPEROR WILLIAM was well enough on
the 2{th % take drive. He also witness
ed the annual shooting contests Of the ON
GERS OF the First Guards.
J0Hx ANDERSEN. bartender In Billy
Thompson's restaurant at Gloucester, y.
j.. received word on the night Of the I'D
that BY the death OF his mother In Copen-
hagen he is heir 10 $4,000.
IT i rumored that powerful syndicate
OF Americans capitalists, headed by one o.
the Vanderbilts, il negotiating with the
Russian Government with the object OF
securing control Of the gold mines OF the
Ural mountains.
A rArAL epidemic is prevalent in Nc
Dcwell County, w. Va.
CAPTAIN JAMES p. MURPHY, one Of the
oldest and wealthiest citizens OF kittan-
| ing. Pa. was struck by the Buffalo express
| on the Allegheny Valley railroad ON the
| Gath and instantly killed Captain MUIR
ply was born in 1896, and resided in
| Armstrong county nearly all his life.
| DAN TRUIrT, negro, who attempted TO
| murder his wife az Mount Vernon, Ind, :
| few weeks ago, was captured by Marshal
| Schneider on the cath. Truitt knocked his
wife in the head with coupling-pin and
| then threw her in the river. She was
rescued by neighbors.
| WHILE at work ON the steamer Rose
| dale at Mount Vernon, Ind. on the 2&th,
| two negro men, Tom Lewis and Austin
| williams, quarreled and Lewis struck
| williams in the mouth with his open hand.
| This so enraged Williams that he drew .
razor and literally cut Lewis 20 pieces, in
flicting about thirty terrible wounds, which
will probably prove fatal.
| GOVERNOR BARTLETT Of California was
| still living on the night Of the aith, but
| The Martins Ferry, (O.) Stove Works,
DESTROYED by fire at three o'clock on
the morning OF the cath. The loss will
probably reach $4,000 on stock and build
| ings: insurance $4,000 The stock consist
ed or 1900 cooking and heating stoves, pat
terms and machinery.
REPoRrs from sixty Manitoba points
concerning havest, now nearly finished.
are highly satisfactory. The wheat yield
will be from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre, with other cereals in proportion.
The amount OF wheat for export will ex'
coed 10000 bushels.
| The largest comet that has appeared In
many years was reported as visible from
indianapolis on the night Of the sfth in
the northern sky. The outline was some
what dim. but was perfectly plain 70 the
naked eve. 1t was first noticed about ten
o'clock.
THE quarrymen employed at the lime
stone auarries along the river east Of
| Younrstown,O O., to the number Of over :, 200
struck on the cath for an increase Of two
cents per ton and semi-monthly payment
| Of wages. Those remaining at worl
| threatened to join the strikers unless tn
. | demands made were conceded
The sale Of one thousand-mile tickets
suspended when the Interstate Commerce
, | act went into force, has been resumed b
I | the Pennsylvania Railroad Company IN
: rate is twenty dollars, the same prevailln
| before the suspension.
GENERAL JONI G. BLACK, COMMISSIONS
, | OF Pensions. is reported 70 be quite i'll Wit
: | nflammatory rheumatism at the residenc
: | OF Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at Weir, n.
: He is there as the guestof the New Ham,
shire veterans. Three physicians has
: been in attendance.